Caio likes math. He wasn't supposed to get too far ahead in math, and in fact was explicitly encouraged to ignore his school math as much as he felt like once he'd passed Algebra I, because the only thing worse than showing up to the Scholomance with enough math to make it interested in challenging you is showing up with math anxiety; but in fact he likes math fine. He's in the nice potential-trade middle ground too, where he can take on homework to get whatever else, and fob it off on somebody, like Camillo maybe, if he gets swamped. Poor Camillo is probably going to be taking Sadistic Ultra-Calculus VII For Terrence Tao and that's no good.

Who is in here with him, he wonders.